Open Ecosystems: Ecology and Evolution Beyond the Forest Edge, Bond William J.

Автор: , Poland Tom
Название: Carolina Bays: Wild, Mysterious, and Majestic Landforms
ISBN: 1643360566 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643360560
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: There is a strange beauty at the heart of every mystery, and the mystery of the Carolina Bays is an enigma that is lushly, uniquely beautiful. Featuring more than one hundred-fifty colour images, Carolina Bays takes you from an aerial perspective of these unusual bays to an on-the-ground safari.

Автор: Boesch Christophe
Название: Chimpanzees of the Tai Forest
ISBN: 1108481558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108481557
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Tai Chimpanzee Project by presenting the unique discoveries that have been made so far, and exploring current research and conservation efforts. Each chapter covers an important research topic including chimpanzee ecology, reproductive behaviour, tool use, culture, communication, cognition, and conservation.

Автор: Stubbendieck James, Hatch Stephan L., Dunn Cheryl D.
Название: Grasses of the Great Plains
ISBN: 162349477X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623494773
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A vast swath of prairie situated between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, the North American Great Plains extend across ten states in the United States and three provinces in Canada. The dominant vegetation is grass--both the native species that have long thrived here and the cultivated crops such as corn, wheat, and sorghum that are the result of human agricultural activity.

This comprehensive guide, written by three grass specialists, is an invaluable tool for identification of the approximately 450 species of grasses that occur on the Great Plains. In each description, the authors cover distribution, habitat, forage value, and toxicity and include a detailed black-and-white illustration of the grass as well as a range map.

Intended as a reference for landowners, rangeland specialists, students, state and federal agency professionals, and nongovernment conservation organizations, Grasses of the Great Plains will serve a wide audience of users involved in and dedicated to grassland management.

Автор: Christopher J. Cleal, Barry A. Thomas
Название: Introduction to Plant Fossils
ISBN: 1108483445 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108483445
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A practical and extensively illustrated guide to studying plant fossils for the non-specialist. Newly revised, it describes how modern research techniques can reveal hidden details of the original plants, and how vegetation has evolved over 500 million years. For students and non-specialists in palaeobotany, palaeontology and plant evolution.

Автор: Charles Cockell; Andrew R. Blaustein
Название: Ecosystems, Evolution, and Ultraviolet Radiation
ISBN: 0387988785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387988788
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: From microbial to plant ecosystems, this book examines how changes in UV radiation, caused by anthropogenic ozone depletion, as well as changes in radiation levels throughout the evolution of life on Earth, can alter species composition and interspecies competitiveness.

Автор: Charles Cockell; Andrew R. Blaustein
Название: Ecosystems, Evolution, and Ultraviolet Radiation
ISBN: 1441931813 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441931818
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: From microbial to plant ecosystems, this book examines how changes in UV radiation, caused by anthropogenic ozone depletion, as well as changes in radiation levels throughout the evolution of life on Earth, can alter species composition and interspecies competitiveness.

Автор: Christian Lenhart, Peter C. Smiley Jr
Название: Ecological Restoration in the Midwest: Past, Present, and Future
ISBN: 160938573X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609385736
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Because of its industrial history, agricultural productivity, and natural features, the Midwest has always faced a unique set of ecological challenges. Focusing on six cutting-edge case studies that highlight thirty restoration efforts and research sites throughout the region, this volume shows how midwestern restoration efforts have developed, as well as where they are headed.

Автор: Khursheed Ahmad Wani, Mamta
Название: Handbook of Research on the Adverse Effects of Pesticide Pollution in Aquatic Ecosystems
ISBN: 1522561110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781522561118
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Описание: Certain types of pesticides are widely used in agriculture in all parts of the world due to their relatively low cost, broad spectrum of activity, and high efficiency. These pollutants contaminate not only the surrounding soils and water but, in many cases, also enter into the drinking water.The Handbook of Research on the Adverse Effects of Pesticide Pollution in Aquatic Ecosystems provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of the prevention of accumulation of toxic pollutants such as agrochemicals and organochlorine pesticides in aquatic ecosystems and applications within ecology and agriculture. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as pesticide monitoring, metabolites, and risk assessment, this book is ideally designed for scientists, researchers, engineers, policymakers, agricultural specialists, industrialists, academicians, and students seeking current research on the risks of water contaminants in small ecosystems.

Автор: Mark Woods
Название: Rethinking Wilderness
ISBN: 1551113481 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781551113487
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Описание: The concept and values of wilderness have been under attack for the past several decades. Mark Woods responds to seven prominent anti-wilderness arguments. He offers a rethinking of the received concept of wilderness, developing a positive account of wilderness as a significant location for the other-than-human value-adding properties of naturalness, wildness, and freedom.

Автор: Rebecca J. H. Woods
Название: The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900
ISBN: 1469634651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469634654
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Описание: As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire. Attending to the relationship between type and place and what it means to call a particular breed of livestock ""native,"" Woods highlights the inherent tension between consumer expectations in the metropole and the ecological reality at the periphery.Based on extensive archival work in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, this study illuminates the connections between the biological consequences and the politics of imperialism. In tracing both the national origins and imperial expansion of British breeds, Woods uncovers the processes that laid the foundation for our livestock industry today.

Автор: Rebecca J. H. Woods
Название: The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900
ISBN: 146963466X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469634661
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire. Attending to the relationship between type and place and what it means to call a particular breed of livestock ""native,"" Woods highlights the inherent tension between consumer expectations in the metropole and the ecological reality at the periphery.Based on extensive archival work in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, this study illuminates the connections between the biological consequences and the politics of imperialism. In tracing both the national origins and imperial expansion of British breeds, Woods uncovers the processes that laid the foundation for our livestock industry today.

Автор: Kirsten A. Greer
Название: Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
ISBN: 1469649829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469649825
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Описание: During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. While these bases helped the British to project power and to secure trade routes, they served more than just a strategic purpose. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. In this ambitious history of ornithology and empire, Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world, just as migratory birds traversed borders from season to season.

Greer examines the lives, writings, and collections of a number of ornithologist-officers, arguing that the transnational encounters between military men and birds simultaneously shaped military strategy, ideas about race and masculinity, and conceptions of the British Empire. Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world, and therefore to exert imagined control over it. Through its examination of the influence of bird watching on military science and soldiers' contributions to ornithology, Red Coats and Wild Birds remaps empire, nature, and scientific inquiry in the nineteenth-century world.